Peter Basch

Peter Basch ( born September 21, 1921 in Berlin, † March 15, 2004 in New York City ) was an American celebrity photographer.

Life

Peter Basch was born in Berlin as the son of actor and director Felix Basch and operetta singer Grete friend. A cousin of his father was the famous tenor Richard Tauber. After the seizure of power in 1933 of the almost 12 -year-old emigrated with his parents from Berlin to the United States. The family lived first in New York City and went to Hollywood in 1935 Father. Basch played again until 1942 in movies and died in 1944. Peter Basch served in the U.S. military during this period. From 1942 to 1946 he was a member of the First Motion Picture Unit in Los Angeles, a unit of the U.S. military, which produced propaganda films and war documentaries.

Back in 1939, Peter Basch had first gained experience as a children's photographer and from 1941 as assistant to the photographer Laszlo Willinger. Willinger worked as a celebrity photographer for the film studio MGM. In 1945, Peter Basch in New York his first photographic studio, specializing in the photography of movie stars. His photos have been published worldwide by glossy magazines. His customers were magazines such as Elle, Esquire, Life, Look or Playboy. In Germany, his photographs have been published by Stern, Brigitte or quick. In addition to his studio recordings of stars he accompanied the film works by directors such as Joseph L. Mankiewicz, George Stevens, Elia Kazan, John Ford and Federico Fellini. For George Stevens, he photographed the filming of giants and thus he photographed shortly before his accidental death of James Dean in his last film. Later in the 1960s, the work of Roman Polanski, Francois Truffaut and Roger Vadim.

In the late 1960s ended Basch his work as a glossy photograph. New Hollywood and the 1968 student movement demanded not for its services. In the early 1970s he also included his photo studio in New York. From photography he came to literature and became an agent for young writers in the U.S. and Europe. He also devoted himself to the interests of the American Indians. His images hang in many museums in the world now; in Germany at the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, in the U.S. at the Museum of Moving Image and the Library of Performing Arts in New York. Peter Basch was married to the Canadian actress Jacqueline Bertrand ( b. 1935 ). They had a daughter and a son.

List of celebrities who were photographed by Peter Basch

Writings

  • Stars! by Peter Basch - photographs from the Fifties and Sixties - Publisher: Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf - ISBN 3-89602-470-1
Elle (magazine) Esquire (magazine) Life (magazine) Brigitte (magazine) Quick (German magazine) Giant (1956 film) Museum Ludwig Jean-Paul Belmondo Integrated Authority File
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